TakeStock full changelog

Enhancements:
Improved the performance of stock information retrieval and did away with the Use authentication data provider setting.
Added the column First Trade that displays the date a security commenced trading.
Bug fixes:
Issue #267, Reported 2024.10.27 by Ravi Bhavnani
Selecting a portfolio’s inception date when creating a snapshot causes the application to crash if the portfolio contains positions that were purchased before 1 Jan 1980. No data loss occurs.
Issue #268, Reported 2024.10.27 by Ravi Bhavnani
The application allows a position’s purchase date to be set to before the security commenced trading.
Issue #269, Reported 2024.11.04 by Ravi Bhavnani
Values displayed in a portfolio’s % Cost Basis column aren’t refreshed when a position in the portfolio is added, deleted or modified.
Issue #270, Reported 2024.11.03 by NB
The application is unable to retrieve the latest stock information on some Windows 7 systems.
Issue #271, Reported 2024.11.03 by NB
The application shouldn’t update the Updated timestamp at the top right of the window if it’s unable to retrieve the latest stock information.

Enhancements:
Issue #265, Reported 2024.10.14 by Mary Murphy
Suggestion: Add the menu command command File | Export | Current View As CSV that was supposed to have been built when the Export View (as CSV) feature was released in version R64 on 4 Oct 2021.
Bug fixes:
Issue #260, Reported 2024.10.07 by Bernard Lefrançois
The Dividend Finder tool is unable to retrieve dividends when the computer is set to a language other than English.
Issue #266, Reported 2024.10.05 by John T
The Price Finder is unable to retrieve historical prices for some Australian securities such as ORI.AX. This also causes some snapshot entries for these securities to display (Unknown).

Bug fixes:
Bug #251, Reported 2024.06.11 by Ravi Bhavnani
The application is unable to retrieve the current market status of some markets.
Bug #252, Reported 2024.06.12 by Graham Balin
The Symbol Finder tool doesn’t return any results.
Bug #253, Reported 2024.08.06 by Bernard Lefrançois
Deleting all positions in a portfolio can cause the application to crash when restarted.
Bug #254, Reported 2024.08.30 by Shamik Shah
Attempting to retrieve historical prices for the MoneyControl symbol MC.DPSCLTD causes the application to crash.
Bug #255, Reported 2024.09.14 by Ravi Bhavnani
Exporting the root folder as a CSV file causes the application to crash.
Bug #256, Reported 2024.09.16 by Ralf Buehler
The Dividend Finder tool displays the error “The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.”.
Bug #257, Reported 2024.09.17 by Ravi Bhavnani
The Price Finder tool displays the error “The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.”.

Enhancements:
When modifying a position, don’t require the new buy date to precede the position’s first dividend date.
Bug fixes:
Bug #232,
Some columns (e.g. Symbol) in an exported CSV file contain extra trailing spaces.
Bug #234,
The “Margin Available” value in the Held Positions summary always displays 0.00.
Bug #235,
A folder’s Held and Sold positions tabs don’t print the correct list of positions.
Bug #236,
Selecting the Snapshot | Create Historical Snapshots menu item for a portfolio that doesn’t contain any held or sold positions causes the application to crash.
Bug #245,
The unauthenticated information provider isn’t able to retrieve current stock prices when the computer’s locale is set to display numeric information in the EU format.
Bug #246,
The unauthenticated information provider doesn’t retrieve a stock’s Change and % Change values.

Bug fixes:
The application is unable to retrieve latest stock information.
The application is unable to retrieve the current market status.

Bug fixes:
Bug #215, Reported 2021.03.18 by Abhijit Barua
The application is unable to retrieve information about securities that contain an ampersand (& in their symbol.
Bug #217, Reported 2021.04.05 by Vijay Idnani
The application is unable to update the values of some MoneyControl positions (e.g. MC.532106 and MC.539436.

Enhancements:
When editing a held or sold position, the user is notified if the position’s dividends need to be recalculated, and offers to automatically do so.
[Suggested by Champa U]
The number of shares of a position being purchased can now be automatically calculated, given the amount invested and the date of purchase.
[Suggested by Champa U]
Bug fixes:
Bug #212, Reported 2020.09.05 by Champa U
When run on a weekday, the Price Finder tool doesn’t return the price for the current day.
Bug #213, Reported 2020.12.09 by Peridot
The current values of Money Control (MC.) symbols cannot be obtained.